After the end of the German national team at the European Football Championship in 2021, Joachim Löw is heavily criticized - not only because of his tactics against England.
Munich / London - Germany is out of the pan-European football championship in 2021, and Joachim Löw has to put up with unpleasant questions after his last international match as national coach.
The line-up, the tactics, the changes - all these points were critically analyzed after the sobering 0-2 of the DFB team in the round of 16 against England.
After from Germany at the European Football Championship in 2021: Joachim Löw for tactics and changes in criticism
“It's a bit sobering. You feel powerless, "said ex-national player Michael Ballack on
MagentaTV
, for example,
and continued:" I don't understand why the national coach has been waiting so long to make a change. Nobody knows why! You could wait for us to fall behind. "
What did the former captain of the DFB team and FC Bayern Munich player mean?
Until the 87th minute, Löw had only made one change despite the deficit, when he replaced the pale Timo Werner with Serge Gnabry after 68 minutes.
Only three minutes before the end of regular time was a double change - Leroy Sané and Emre Can came for Robin Gosens and Matthias Ginter in a game that was decided after the 2-0 draw by Harry Kane (86th).
After all, the 61-year-old from Baden brought 18-year-old Jamal Musiala (FC Bayern) only in stoppage time for his Munich club colleague Thomas Müller.
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Is that what impulses look like? “That doesn't do anything,” said Hertha manager and 1996 European champion Fredi Bobic at
MagentaTV
: “That was an alibi, it doesn't do anything. You have five bills of exchange. The national coach has to be accused of that. Even in the past, his changes were questionable. ”There was also criticism from
within
our own ranks, specifically from U21 national coach Stefan Kuntz, who was an expert at
ARD
in the studio.
“It didn't look like a sworn unit was on the field.
What you need for success.
There was no spark, "said the 58-year-old ex-Bundesliga player and criticized:" We can discuss the back three.
We fell behind four times in four games. ”To put it into perspective: Löw had held on to the three-way chain against the“ Three Lions ”, although it had already proven to be extremely vulnerable in the previous games at the 2021 European Championship.
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"It is frustrating. We made the same mistakes in all four games, ”said national goalkeeper Almuth Schult at
ARD
. In her opinion, the backward movement did not work at all after losing the ball on the outside. In fact: As against France (0: 1), Portugal (4: 2) and Hungary (2: 2), the goals conceded by the German national team in the bankruptcy in London against England resulted from open flanks because the outside players did not move in in time and / or the opponent outnumbered them. In the end, one thing remained above all - harsh criticism of Joachim Löw's decisions.
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